Missed opportunities in the early detection of HIV infection in patients with sexually transmitted infections: A real-life study.

Introduction: Sexually transmitted diseases such as cervicitis, proctitis and urethritis are associated with high rates of HIV infection. When these pathologies are suspected, HIV serology should be requested.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was performed during 2018 at the Hospital Costa del Sol (Marbella, Málaga, Spain).

The value of telephone consultations during COVID-19 pandemic. An observational study.

Background: Many Spanish hospitals converted scheduled in-person visits to telephone visits during the COVID-19 lockdown. There is scarce information about the performance of those visits.

Aim: To compare telephone visits during the COVID-19 lockdown period with previous in-person visits.

Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Like Reactive Hemophagocytic Syndrome Associated with Disseminated Histoplasmosis in a HIV Patient.

We describe an unusual clinical association of disseminated histoplasmosis with reactive hemophagocytic syndrome. We report the case of a new HIV-positive patient with reconstitution inflammatory syndrome like reactive hemophagocytic syndrome associated with disseminated histoplasmosis. We describe the clinical case, the procedures performed, the treatment provided and the patient's evolution.

[Results of an early intervention program for patients with bacteremia discharged from the Emergency Department].

Background And Objective: Occult bacteremia represents 3% of blood cultures drawn in the Emergency Department. In most cases, the evolution is unknown. The aim of the study is to analyze the results obtained after implementation of an intervention program for these patients.

[Impact of demographic and psychosocial factors on adherence to antiretroviral treatment].

Background And Objective: Antiretroviral efficacy is closely related to the degree of adherence. The aim of this study is to assess the association between psychosocial and demographic variables and adherence to antiretroviral treatment.

Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 320 patients under antiretroviral treatment was conducted in four Andalusian hospitals, using a semi-structured questionnaire given by health care professionals.

[Manifestations of sarcoidosis in the upper respiratory tract].

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease having unknown cause, characterized by non-caseating granulomatous inflammation of the organs involved. It predominantly affects the respiratory tract, with preference for the lower tract and less frequently affects the upper respiratory tract (nose, paranasal sinuses and larynx). It manifests non-specifically, with symptoms secondary to the obstruction of the airway.

[Clinical status, adherence to HAART and quality of life in HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral treatment].

Introduction: Quality of life is one of the most frequently used subjective measures in chronic health problems. The aim of this study is to analyze the association between clinical and therapeutic parameters, and 11 quality of life domains in HIV-infected patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 320 patients on antiretroviral treatment was conducted in four Andalusian hospitals (Spain).

Health-related quality of life of patients with HIV: impact of sociodemographic, clinical and psychosocial factors.

Objectives: This study aims to analyse how a wide group of clinical, social, demographic and psychological factors are related to both physical and mental quality of life in HIV + patients.

Design: A cross-sectional study was carried out of 320 HIV + patients in antiretroviral treatment who attended infectious diseases units in four hospitals in the region of Andalusia (Spain).

Methods: Health-Related Quality of Life was measured by the MOS-HIV.

[Endophthalmitis and multiple brain abscess in a patient with endocarditis due to Streptococcus agalactiae].

Endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare disease caused by hematogenic germ spread from an internal focus. Infections due to Streptococcus agalactiae are infrequent in adults although new cases had been described recently associated to inmunodepression. We present a patient with endocarditis due to Streptococcus agalactiae, endophthalmitis and multiple brain abscess.

[Effect of cyclosporine on plasma levels of uric acid in patients treated with bone marrow transplantation].

In patients treated with cyclosporine, an increase in the incidence of goiter has been demonstrated. This agent produces changes in the lipidic metabolisms, among which the increase in VLDL stands put. Given that the hyperlipemia more frequently associated to hyperuricemia is the increase of such lipoprotein, we decided to study the behaviour of plasmatic uric acid in patients receiving treatment with cyclosporine.

[Rapidly evolving pulmonary bullous degeneration in HIV-infected patients. Description of 4 cases and review of the literature].

Cavitary lung lesions are common in intravenous drug-addicts (IVDA) and in AIDS patients. Four cases are reported of IVDA patients with HIV positive serology who developed an initially thick-walled lesion, which grew rapidly and evolved into bullous lesions. The negative results in microbiological investigations for Pneumocystis carinii, Nocardia spp.